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Ice-Fishing in the Deepest Depths

Posted February 11, 2012 4:18 PM

From NYT > Science:

In an extraordinary feat, Russian scientists reached an enormous freshwater lake more than two miles beneath the ice-covered surface of Antarctica.

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02/12/2012 2:53 AM

Some guys from Lake Wobegon are getting ready to mount an expedition....

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02/12/2012 4:57 AM

Whoopee, now we can set about polluting it.
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02/12/2012 9:13 AM

You're late - we started that over a week ago....see post #3.

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02/12/2012 9:11 AM

Shouldn't this be added to the original Lake Vostok News thread. After all, the linked article here doesn't add anything new, and is over a week out of date. Hardly "news"

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02/12/2012 9:25 AM

Sorry about that - our tool for loading Engineering News doesn't warn us that the story may be a duplicate.

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